Art Prints - Claude Monet

Claude Monet was a French painter considered to be the initiator and foremost supporter of the Impressionist Movement in painting in 19th century France. The artist's style is best known for capturing pigmented "impressions" of nature and everyday middle class life known painted in "plein-air" or painting outdoors. Monet's works garnered much negative criticism from the classically realist and romantic school of painters of the French Ecole de Beaux Arts. Moving to Argenteuil, on the Seine river near Paris, Monet together with other French painters; Edouard Manet, Gustave Courbet and Camille Pizzaro established the height of the Impressionist movement by organizing an independent exhibition of the Impressionists. His painting, "Impression":Sunrise, 1872 gave the group their name.
His work and influence reached a very wide scale and was instrumental in spreading modernism in Europe and in the United States. His artistry influenced the work of post-impressionists and avant garde artists including Dutch painter, Vincent van Gogh; Fauvist painter, Henri Matisse; and French painter Paul Cezanne. His radical departure from the classical tradition resurfaced in the United States to be manifested in the abstract expressionist paintings of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
Mone't best works leave much to be argued but some of his works are better known than others due to their reproductions as poster prints. Some of his most popular prints include:
• Le Pont Japonais a Giverny, The Japanese FootBridge, 1922- is a painting of Monet's famous Japanese footbridge. The bridge is located in the garden he constructed at his Giverny home towards the latter part of his life. Online versions of this painting can be found at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Poster prints onlinecan be ordered at 24x36" or at custom sizes.
• Impression, Sunrise, 1872- is the iconic painting that gained the Impressionist movement its exposure and popularity in France. Online poster printing offer to print this in 24x36" or custom sizes.By Seth Luca